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Buckner, Richard Aylett

lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 21, 1849, in Owenton, Ky. At the age of fourteen he was elected captain of the governor's guards, a gallant young company of Kentuckians of some historical renown, and took part in the defense of Frankfort in the latter part of 1863. In 1876 he was admitted to the bar; and since 1884 has practiced his profession at Dermott, Ark., after having lived several years in the states of Missouri and Kentucky. In 1880 and 1884 he was a delegate to the national republican conventions; and in 1895 was nominated state senator from the fifteenth senatorial district of Arkansas.